Amador T. Daguio was a poet, novelist and teacher during the pre-war. He was best known for his fictions and poems. He had published two volumes of poetry, &#;Bataan Harvest&#; and &#;The Flaming Lyre&#;. He served as chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives before he died in
Daguio was born 8 January in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, but grew up in Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father, an officer in the Philippine Constabulary, was assigned. He was class valedictorian in at the Lubuagan Elementary School. Then he stayed with his uncle at Fort William McKinley to study at Rizal High School in Pasig. Those four years in high school were, according to Daguio, the most critical in his life. «I spent them literally in poverty, extreme loneliness, and adolescent pains …In my loneliness, I began to compose verses in earnest.”8 He was in third year high when he broke into print in a national weekly, The Sunday Tribune Magazine (11 July ), with a poem, “She Came to Me.” He was going to be valedictorian or salutatorian, but his teacher in “utter lack of justice …put down my marks in history—my favorite subject. That just about broke my heart because then I would have h
Amador Daguio () grew up in the malarial regions of Mountain Province, in northern Luzon, where his constabulario father helped bring order to the non-Christian Kalinga tribes. However, his own love was for adventure of a different kind, and at the age of four he &#;ran away to school,&#; to dream the youthful idylls later included in his unpublished novel, The Cradle of Summer.
In , when his father moved to Makati, Rizal, his lyric free verse made him class poet in high school. Later, to earn tuition for the University of the Philippines, Daguio worked as caddy, houseboy and street-car ticket seller. Nevertheless, he completed his Ph.B. in four years and still found time to win every important literary contest and the encouragement of his professor from Australia, T. Inglis Moore. When the seventeen-year-old boy had an offer from Poet Lore in America to publish a chapbook of his verses, it was Moore who advised him to work for perfection instead-but sponsored his appearance in the Sydney Bulletin.
During the early depression years, tubercular lesions forced Daguio to return to the Mountain Province, to heal. Then from the elementary schools of Lubuagan and Banko he wa
AMADOR T. DAGUIO
EARLY LIFE
Amador T. Daguio was born on the 8th of January in at Laoag, Ilocos Norte. He moved with his constabulario father, who helped restore order to the non-Christian Kalinga tribes in the material regions of the Mountain Province in northern Luzon. His passion, though, was for an adventure of a different kind. And at the age of four, he "ran away to school" to dream of the youthful idylls that he later featured in his unpublished novel, The Cradle of Summer.
EDUCATION
Amador Daguio studied primary education in Lubuagan Elementary School and graduated as the class valedictorian in Daguio has started writing poems ever since elementary, according to his account. When he was in Grade 6, he even wrote a farewell verse on a chalkboard at least once for a departing teacher. He moved to Pasig in his secondary level to attend Rizal High School while residing with his uncle at Fort William McKinley.
Due to poverty, he failed to enroll for the first semester in college in He also fell short at qualifying for a scholarship, which forced him to work as a houseboy, waiter, and caddy at Fort McKinley to afford studying for the next semest
Amador T. Daguio (January 8, - April 26, )
was a poet, novelist and teacher during the pre-war. He was best known for his fictions and poems. He had published two volumes of poetry, "Bataan Harvest" and"The Flaming Lyre". He served as chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives before he died in
Daguio was born 8 January in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, but grew up in Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father, an officer in the Philippine Constabulary, was assigned. He was class valedictorian in at the Lubuagan Elementary School. Then he stayed with his uncle at Fort William McKinley to study at Rizal High School in Pasig. Those four years in high school were, according to Daguio, the most critical in his life. &#;I spent them literally in poverty, extreme loneliness, and adolescent pains &#;In my loneliness, I began to compose verses in earnest.&#;8 He was in third year high when he broke into print in a national weekly, The Sunday Tribune Magazine (11 July ), with a poem, &#;She Came to Me.&#; He was going to be valedictorian or salutatorian, but his teacher in &#;utter lack of justice &#;put down my marks in history&#;my favorite subje
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